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 In his article "Alfie Evans not alone: Hundreds of patients starved to death in UK every year," Matthew Hoffman writes - "Britain's National Health Service (NHS) tells the public that euthanasia, or the deliberate killing of patients, is 'illegal' in Britain and that the 'maximum penalty is life imprisonment.' However, the NHS's handling of the Alfie Evans case has provided another reminder to the world that the country's prohibition of euthanasia has become little more than a dead letter. "It has been a well-documented fact for years that hundreds of patients die every year of starvation and thirst in NHS hospitals, a phenomenon that is facilitated by ambiguous end-of-life treatment guidelines that allow doctors and nurses to arbitrarily classify a person as 'dying' and to withhold nutrition, hydration, and other basic forms of life support with no danger of punishment." Standard medical care in the U.S. for dying patients is to provide basic palliative care, i.e., food and water. The patient often senses when death approaches and will not take any more food or water, but for doctors and nurses to arbitrarily decide that "it is not in the patient's best interests" (actually, in socialized medicine's best economic interests) to keep him or her alive, as this article documents, is nothing less than murder. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |